There’s a story that English artist David Hockney tells of the occasion on which his mother came to visit soon after he had relocated to Los Angeles in 1978. Hockney was born in Bradford, a West Yorkshire city that’s a little smaller than Cleveland, Ohio, and possessed of a similar degree of glamour and cultural [...]
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Dana Spiotta’s Masterpiece
August 27, 2011 – 10:23 pm
Stone Arabia is Dana Spiotta’s third novel. The time has come to call her one of our best writers. In Stone Arabia, a woman named Denise describes the slow deterioration of her family: her aging mother, daughter Ada, and her brother, a musician named Nik Worth, who rejects a career as a pop star to [...]
Watch A Book
August 21, 2011 – 9:46 pm
Here’s something I love that has come out of our weirdo digital age: book trailers. Sort of like mini-movies, these small little snippets are meant to take us inside the action of a book and want to read it, in much the same way a movie trailer does. Some of them are very smart and [...]
Ethan Hon on Sherry Mills
June 22, 2011 – 6:35 am
Sherry Mills is an artist in New York. She is the subject of a documentary by Nathalie Michel. Her latest project “Perspective” will open on June 30th at Rogue Gallery in Chelsea. More information is available via the artist’s website: www.sherrymills.com Ethan Hon is from Omaha, Nebraska. He is the co-founder of JERRY: A Magazine and [...]
Patterns and symptoms…
June 9, 2011 – 2:21 pm
Cherry Pickman lives in Brooklyn, New York. She’s at work on her first collection of poems.
Murray Spalding
June 7, 2011 – 11:10 pm
An Eastern-inspired teacher once taught me that a mandala is an illustration of one’s universe, with each ring depicting a different layer of one’s being—one’s place within his or her environment. So, when I sat down with my colored pencils to sketch my own mandala, naturally I created swirling images of a high school student’s [...]
Dossier Asks: Tell Us About Your First Time….
May 10, 2011 – 7:53 am
Laura Goode is the author of Sister Mischief. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, and JERRY. She lives in San Francisco.
